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Disney revealed earlier this week that Mufasa and Scar are not brothers. Um, what? The fact that Scar is Simba's blood relative is what makes his cruelty that much more wicked (and is, arguably, the whole point of the movie).

Producer Don Hahn clarified to HelloGiggles that, in the wild, there aren't lion "brothers" per say.

"The way lions operate … when the male lion gets old, another rogue lion comes and kills the head of the pride ..." he explained. "Then the new, younger lion kills the king and then he kills all the babies. Now he's the new lion that's running the pride." \

"Occasionally there are prides that do have two male lions, in an interesting dynamic because they're not equals [since they don't have the same parents]," Hahn continued. "One lion will always kind of be off in the shadows. We were trying to use those animal truths to underpin the story so we sort of figured Scar and Mufasa couldn't really be from the same gene pool."

So when Mufasa refers to Scar as his brother, it's only because they're part of the same pride

According to Hahn, Scar even hints at this in the movie with the line, "I'm from the shallow end of the gene pool."

People don't know what to do with this shocking news — some even feel betrayed.

hang on i just found out that scar and mufasa were not brothers, what trickery is this

is a Disney classic. Its influence crosses generations — but what if we told you the story of a fatherless cub overcoming a tyrant uncle has all been ... a lie?

Disney revealed earlier this week that Mufasa and Scar are brothers. Um, what? The fact that Scar is Simba's blood relative is what makes his cruelty that much more wicked (and is, arguably, the whole point of the movie).